Yeah it's very much CUTSCENE, WALK A BIT, TUTORIAL but I'm enjoying it.
I am finding all the information a bit overwhelming. Like it forced me to switch everyone's classes to get used to that mechanic and I'm not even used to them as their starting classes yet! But I feel like I'd be missing out to ignore this feature?
There was a cutscene where Eunie called Lanz a "muppet" which implies that muppets canonically exist in the Xenoblade universe, because how else would that insult have come about?